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The Christian States of America was a Chinese Puppet state that existed from 2049 to 2090 and consisted mainly of the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, and Great Plains states of the former US up to the Mississippi river. Unlike Shang Dynasty China, it was nominally a republic, albeit one dominated by a coalition of industrialists and Christian Fundamentalists. The CSA's economy was based on a weird mixture of neoliberalism and populism with agricultural matters being subsidized by the state while the state took largely a hands-off approach to industry and commerce. One historian has termed the CSA the "unholy mixture of Iran under the mull

Before the War of the Five Kings, the last major war definitively caused by a succession crisis had been the War of the Ninepenny Kings, where Maelys the Monstrous, previously thought to be the last Blackfyre, claimed the Iron Throne. That war, however, was never even fought on Westerosi soil. The War of there Three Stags, however, had been insanely traumatic for the Seven kingdoms; whole regions were devastated, and humanity had literally almost gone extinct due to the disunion in the face of the others and Euron. There was a general consensus across Westeros that the succession simply needed to be officially handled. Thus, in 310, Myrcella